Patrick Bell, when a young man, was for some time a tutor in the family of a well-to-do farmer in the county of Wellington, and there is a tradition that while there he carried on some experiments in the origination of his machine.
"History of Farming in Ontario"
C. C. James
Yet all this supposes that Christianity is something found by man outside himself, with whose origination he had nothing to do; but, if this be established, its supernatural origin, and therefore, supposing theism, its truth, is already proved, and can only receive confirmation from the argument of adaptability.
"The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)"
George Tyrrell
In a word, this particular argument holds strictly only for man's own guesses at religious truth,-for "natural" religions; but for Christianity, only so far as we deny it to be supernatural as to its content and mode of origination.
"The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)"
George Tyrrell